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more devious
adjective as in dishonest, crafty
Strongest matches
adjective as in crooked; indirect
Example Sentences
The alleged conspirators also used more devious means to bolster credit scores.
The second book offers an even more devious plot: Kill Harry.
But fifteen miles would do it, if the more devious path had to be taken.
Such subtlety as he possessed had been acquired through contact with the more devious races.
The original road, too, adopted in imperial times a more devious but easier route by Aeclanum instead of by Trevicum.
The way became more devious now, bending around a wooded hill and then crossing a wide swamp to enter a stretch of forest.
In the wider sense who was crookeder, whose life more devious?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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